Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba)

Professor Meer a lifelong ANC activist who wrote Nelson Mandela's official biography Higher than Hope has recently led protests in Durban's Indian townships against the ANC-dominated council's housing policy...

For a while the ANC seemed to have tamed Buthelezi by giving him a senior cabinet post and occasionally allowing him to assume the role of acting president when Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki were out of the country...

The DP was formed in 1989 just before Nelson Mandela's release from Robben Island as a repository of liberal values funded by big business...

Another Xhosa ex-President Nelson Mandela unsuccessfully wooed Holomisa but he has flirted with the PAC...

Surprisingly it was led by Graça Machel widow of President Samora Machel (and now married to South African ex-President Nelson Mandela) and by Jorge Rebelo...

The MDC has hired the high profile South African advocate Jeremy Gauntlet who has represented Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu and hopes its case will be in Zimbabwe's high court in September...

Madiba's rebuke The turning point had come in February when ex-President Nelson Mandela publicly rebuked the government for its AIDS policy and encouraged community organisations to see the government as an uncaring enemy...

Ex-President Nelson Mandela rates him highly: Zuma risked his political life to help save his government in kwaZulu-Natal...

The Arusha agreement brokered first by the late Tanzanian former President Julius Nyerere then by South African former President Nelson Mandela was signed without a ceasefire and needs one if it is to last...

Unlike his predecessor Nelson Mandela Masire does not like deadlines...